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...Jason Noble Pierce, minister of the First Congregational Church in Washington, D. C., where Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attend, where falling plaster once knocked a woman near the President's pew unconscious (TIME, June 21), last week told the Kiwanis Club in Stamford, Conn., that: "Probably four out of five of those who attend the services are not my people but come to the church just to see the President. The fact that we had to extend the seating capacity of the church does not signify a growth in spirituality, but rather an increase in curiosity...
...Plaster. A month ago Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris shot D. E. Chipps to death (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Last week on Sunday, while the pastor shook the rafters with his transcendental, logical harangue, the plaster fell on his hearers, injuring two seriously, 200 slightly, the pastor...
Divorced. Paul du Bonnet, distiller, sportsman, scion of the du Bonnets whose aperitif advertisements plaster every other billboard in France; by the onetime Christine Coty, daughter of the internationally famed perfumer, in Paris. He, it is rumored, will soon marry the notorious Mrs. Nash, famed as "the best dressed woman in the world...
Professor Guidi will take his discovery to Rome where plaster casts will be made and sent to the museums of the world...
...century old, the Gothic stone structure of Trinity Church, the third on its site on Broadway at the head of Wall Street,† is crumbling in the excessively eroding climate of Manhattan. Workmen this week are charting the weakened spots in the walls; later will have to reinforce the plaster and lath the ceiling with wire...